Anne Lenders baskets

Anne Lenders is a Marden Senior College student and is also doing Jackie Abrams workshop with me this week. Below are some photos of Anne's gorgeous baskets.

This basket is made with pieces of denim jeans and a barbed wire handle.

A closeup of the denim weaving.

This basket is made using wool and fabric strips over a traditional fibre base.

The basket above was made using machine wrapped cords. There is a close-up photo provided as well.

This final basket is made by weaving silk over the top of a traditional fibre basket. Note the barbed wire handle.

Gorgeous work Anne, such a shame for South Australia your moving to Tasmania (lucky Tassie's).

Twined Basket

I've been playing a bit more with making a few vessels. I made the ones below using a basket making technique called twining.

This one above, I started making using pipe cleaners and just some wool I found buried in my studio.

This one is made using banana fibres. The wire structure wasn't strong enough though to hold the shape of the vessel properly.